Down without demand. Ryanair says the risks are skewed to the downside as the ceo called the new lockdown political mismanagement on a grand scale. Welcome to the program this monday morning. Just under one hour to go until the start of the cash Equities Trading session and futures look like this. It will be moving to the downside. The u. S. Session on friday, particular tech stocks taking a hit. You might expect negativity coming through. Lets have a look at u. S. Futures, a slightly different trend for us this morning. No trend, in fact. Fairly flat. Theaw a definitive move to downside on friday. There are a number of themes in play as we go into this, not least of which the u. S. Election and the fed. The chinese data we had out overnight, interesting of course for markets but really from a european perspective, we are focused on what is going on with the left story across europe and we will be thinking a lot about that and talking to our guests a lot about that as we go through the
If confirmed, she would be the first woman to hold the position. Promising stynes leader to have u. S. Coronavirus Vaccine Program says astrazenecas shot could halt severe covid. Welcome to the program. Futures in europe pointing higher. Futures in the u. S. Pointing higher and a number of uncertainties removed from the markets thinking over the last 24 hours or so. One of them is who is going to be treasury secretary. Somebody the that market knows ery well in the shape of janet yellen, somebody that has considerable monetary experience and fiscal experience. The other uncertainty is the transition at the white house. That seeps to be looking a little smoother given the headlines we have seen over recent hours. The asian picture benefiting from all of that removal of uncertainty i described. Something more complicated happening to the japanese market which had been doing well prior to being closed. It seems the Trump Administration in its last days still has some tough time to be toug
Europe, up by 2. 5 . Todays number from barclays, very strong. We are going to hear from jes staley a little later in the program, our interview from early round. The pound bouncing around all over the place. We were into 1. 31. I think this is broad Dollar Strength rather than anything else. Take a look at the bloomberg dollar index. Alix rising covid cases impacting the economic data. Composite pmi for the euro area dropping below the 50 mark, which shows contraction. Meeting. O ecbs next joining us is john hardy, Saxo Bank Head of fx strategy. Does 1. 18 make sense for when you consider the rising uncertainty . John of course, the pressure should be on the downside given the covid resurgence. I think the general take on the could be that if we are seeing this democrat sweep scenario, we are positioning for a weaker dollar for some time in the future. Anything looks fair between 1. 17, and to me, this is the upper area of where we should be. We shouldnt be doing anything and eurodoll
That 18 out. To see fascinating is the two different debates find, but then have it coalesce into a Running Stream on different websites and different media, including bloomberg. It was amazing. It was something completely modern and completely different. Like a european debate, tom, is how i would maybe describe it. You got a lot more policy than in the last debate. And possible shifting in some minds. Get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump and joe biden were on tv last night at the same time but on different channels. They held competing televised town halls. Instead of debating as the schedule had originally called for. At nbc, the president said he knew the coronavirus was a huge danger. Pres. Trump i knew it was a big threat. At the same time, i dont want to panic this country. I dont want to come out and say everybodys going to die. Ritika in a town hall monitor rated moderated by george stephanopoulos, biden was asked if he would take a vaccine once it
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